From: Russell King <rmk+pcmcia@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] pcmcia: disable pcmcia ioctl for !ARM, prepare for removal
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 15:24:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100515142409.GB18960@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1267603248-23866-5-git-send-email-linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 09:00:48AM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Furthermore, the last legitimate use of the ioctl to be reported
> relates to the ARM architecture in 2008.[1] Attempts to resolve
> this issue turned out unsuccessful so far.[2] Other usages have only
> been reported as hear-say. If there are any legitiate and necessary
> use-cases remaining, please speak out before the end of the grace
> period until 2.6.3{5,6}(-rc1).
What's the point of speaking out? You don't take any notice of people
who do, and you continue your crusade of wanting to remove it. Please,
stop giving the impression that you give a damn of what people say about
the ioctl interface.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-15 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-03 7:59 [git pull] more PCMCIA updates for 2.6.34 (including ioctl deprecation) Dominik Brodowski
2010-03-03 8:00 ` [PATCH 5/5] pcmcia: disable pcmcia ioctl for !ARM, prepare for removal Dominik Brodowski
2010-05-15 14:24 ` Russell King [this message]
2010-05-15 14:37 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-05-15 14:46 ` Russell King
2010-05-15 14:55 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-03-03 8:30 ` [git pull] more PCMCIA updates for 2.6.34 (including ioctl deprecation) Russell King
2010-03-03 8:43 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-03-05 12:07 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 12:57 ` Wolfram Sang
2010-03-05 21:41 ` Russell King
2010-03-06 2:44 ` Peter Stuge
2010-03-10 20:45 ` Pavel Machek
2010-03-10 21:00 ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-03-13 6:52 ` Pavel Machek
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